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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Dis. 2019 Jan 23;125:67–76. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2019.01.013

Table 3.

Clinical, genetic, pathologic, and biochemical features of the present cohort (n=136), stratified by autopsy-confirmed hippocampal sclerosis of aging (HS-Aging) and advanced Alzheimer’s disease (Braak NFT stages V or VI) pathologies

HS-Aging pathology ? → HS-Aging no HS-Aging yes p-value
for Braak
V/VI
status
p-value
for HS-
Aging
status
Advanced AD
(Braak NFT Stages V or VI)
pathology ? →
Braak
V/VI
no
Braak
V/VI
yes
Braak
V/VI
no
Braak
V/VI
yes
n 55 44 13 24 N/A N/A
Age at death, Avg 85.3 79.5 89.4 86.2 0.032 0.006
% Female 56.4 52.3 69.2 62.5 0.729 0.279
% Normal cognition/clinical state 61.8 7.1 15.4 0.0 <0.001 <0.001
% Demented cognition/clinical state 14.5 81.0 84.6 95.8 <0.001 <0.001
Final MMSE Score, Avg* 27.5 16.0 18.8 11.9 <0.001 <0.001
% SLCO1A2/IAPP risk allele(s) 29.1 18.2 16.7 7.2 0.072 0.992
% GRN risk allele(s) 36.4 43.2 50.0 29.6 0.296 0.490
% TMEM106B risk allele(s) 83.6 79.5 79.2 25.3 0.253 0.518
% ABCC9 risk allele(s) 25.5 15.9 30.8 25.0 0.307 0.472
% APOE ε4 allele [+]* 21.6 37.1 25.0 45.5 0.032 0.270
DG: % [+] TDP-43 inclusions 11 18 77 67 0.321 <0.001
DG: median # inclusions in [+] cases 1.5 1 14 6
CA1: % [+] TDP-43 inclusions 24 18 85 75 0.956 <0.001
CA1: median # inclusions in [+] cases 1 1 13 15.5
CA1 TDP-43 neurites, median 1.05E-03 1.06E-03 3.17E-02 1.05E-02 0.859 <0.001
Sub: % [+] TDP-43 inclusions 11 18 77 67 0.526 <0.001
Sub: median # inclusions in [+] cases 2 3 15 16.5
Sub TDP-43 neurites, median 1.04E-03 1.79E-03 1.41E-02 5.96E-03 0.807 <0.001
% with Frontal Cx TDP-43 1.8 0 8.3 4.1 0.441 0.002
T4 fg/mg brain tissue, Avg 195.8 183.44 182.7 211.89 0.984 0.265
T3 fg/mg brain tissue, Avg 7.58 7.59 7.83 7.91 0.885 0.654
Average of T3/T4 ratio, Avg 0.039 0.041 0.043 0.037 0.861 0.721
PMI (hrs), Avg 4.5 5.0 4.3 5.8 0.051 0.633
*

-APOE genotype was available on 120/136 (88.2%) of the included subjects, and final MMSE scores were available for 126/136 (92.6%) of subjects.

N/A: Not applicable.